Lewis Mumford Quotes
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
Quotes to Explore
-
I wanted to define the vocabulary of a wedding both visually and intellectually. The book is about more than weddings or wedding dresses. It's a metaphor for women's lives, their creativity.
-
At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
-
I went on to Harvard and got very interested in computers and studying the earth's landscape.
-
Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
-
I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
-
We've always had anti-Muslim bigots, but they've always been at the fringes of society.
-
I have won the most national titles as a German, so what should I do after that? Lay back and take it easy? That's not how I am.
-
When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
-
If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
-
As someone who works from home, my top style tip is to make sure you get dressed in the morning.
-
In the past, human society provided encouragement and opportunity for people to extend support to each other, especially in highly stressful situations.
-
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
-
The accepted definition of a serial killer is a person who kills at least three times with a cooling off period in between his murders.
-
For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
-
Playing further up the pitch, you have more opportunities to score and provide assists, and it's something I liked right from the start.
-
'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
-
I'm pretty hard on myself in general.
-
I spend my days kneeling in the muck of language, feeling around for gooey verbs, nouns, and modifiers that I can squash together to make a blob of a sentence that bears some likeness to reason and sense.
-
Of course, today at the Karolinska Institute, I am working with some top experts - even some Nobel prize winners. They have the latest news and I have the technique.
-
We're playing for blood, the stake is EARTH.
-
If the public thought elevates you above the generality of men, let the other humble you, and hold you in a perfect equality with all mankind, for this is your natural condition.
-
Pride in the case of a rich man is bad, but pride in the case of a poor man is worse.
-
There will be little drudgery in this better ordered world. Natural power harnessed in machines will be the general drudge. What drudgery is inevitable will be done as a service and duty for a few years or months out of each life; it will not consume nor degrade the whole life of anyone.
-
What plethora of material goods can possibly atone for a waking life so humanly belittling, if not degrading, as the push-button tasks left to human performers?
